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Corrections are needed to the "greek legends" in the righthand box with the coin photos.
The greek text is a mixture of Latin and Greek characters -- it should be made all standard Greek capital letters.
Especially note:
The Latin "V" should be Greek capital upsilon (looks like "Y")
In "KAΔAΦEC" the Latin "C" should be Greek capital sigma (standard sigma, not lunate sigma as the actual character on the coin seems to have a middle projection)
Several of the words are also suspicious -- may be a local dialect and/or use local letterforms, or may be typos in Wikipedia text.
The original author should check the text of the numismatic source.
The years were listed in standard birth, death format. But the year thirty appears to be start of reign, not birth, according to both the succession boxes and the statement in son's article, ""Qiujiu Que (Ch: 丘就卻 "Ch’iu-chiu-ch’üeh", Kujula Kadphises) was more than eighty years old when he died. His son, Yan Gaozhen (Ch:閻高珍)". Gene Nygaard 06:57, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I have reversed the identification of Anxi back Indo-Parthia because there is no evidence of Kujula invading "Parthia Proper" but plenty showing him conquering much if not all of "Indo-Parthia." John Hill 05:38, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
I have taken the liberty of updating two quotations that were based on my early draft translation of the text from the Hou Hanshu that were online at the Silk Road Seattle website, for more up-to-date ones from my 2009 book, Through the Jade Gate to Rome. I have removed all the references to footnotes from the quoted text, as they are not checkable here. If anyone has any concerns about me giving quotes from my own book, please raise it here and notify me on my Discussion page. Many thanks, John Hill ( talk) 01:01, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
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Corrections are needed to the "greek legends" in the righthand box with the coin photos.
The greek text is a mixture of Latin and Greek characters -- it should be made all standard Greek capital letters.
Especially note:
The Latin "V" should be Greek capital upsilon (looks like "Y")
In "KAΔAΦEC" the Latin "C" should be Greek capital sigma (standard sigma, not lunate sigma as the actual character on the coin seems to have a middle projection)
Several of the words are also suspicious -- may be a local dialect and/or use local letterforms, or may be typos in Wikipedia text.
The original author should check the text of the numismatic source.
The years were listed in standard birth, death format. But the year thirty appears to be start of reign, not birth, according to both the succession boxes and the statement in son's article, ""Qiujiu Que (Ch: 丘就卻 "Ch’iu-chiu-ch’üeh", Kujula Kadphises) was more than eighty years old when he died. His son, Yan Gaozhen (Ch:閻高珍)". Gene Nygaard 06:57, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I have reversed the identification of Anxi back Indo-Parthia because there is no evidence of Kujula invading "Parthia Proper" but plenty showing him conquering much if not all of "Indo-Parthia." John Hill 05:38, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
I have taken the liberty of updating two quotations that were based on my early draft translation of the text from the Hou Hanshu that were online at the Silk Road Seattle website, for more up-to-date ones from my 2009 book, Through the Jade Gate to Rome. I have removed all the references to footnotes from the quoted text, as they are not checkable here. If anyone has any concerns about me giving quotes from my own book, please raise it here and notify me on my Discussion page. Many thanks, John Hill ( talk) 01:01, 5 December 2010 (UTC)